Tag Archives: Legal

A Los Angeles US federal judge has ruled that Dish’s Hopper DVR, which features the ability to skip commercials, can remain on the market while litigation proceeds. Fox Broadcasting, along with other networks, have been hea...

Because of some driver’s lack of ability to follow the law when driving, New York State is forced to install “Text Zones” throughout the city where drivers can park and have a few texts.
“New York State is continuing to use...

The Senate Judiciary Committee last week approved a new version of the proposed media shield law, forging a compromise on who should be protected from having to reveal their journalistic sources in court. The amended bill, which i...

Samsung is in trouble again. Apparently the company allegedly copied Dyson’s steering mechanism patent for vacuum cleaners. Samsung showed off a new vacuum cleaner at the recently held IFA tech show, and one of the features on th...

Today the Chinese people have something new to fear, something that could force many to be very careful of what they say on the Internet, for it could land them in prison. According to a new interpretation by the Supreme Court of...

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of patent trolls suddenly cried out in terror as they were suddenly silenced. I feel something wonderful has happened. Yes, while you were sleeping, New Zealand’s parliament...

Both Microsoft and Google are unable to team up and build a Windows Phone 8 YouTube app, but at least these companies can team up to fight against the government. So all is not so bad in the world, and that’s great news all round...

New Jersey Appeals Court has come up with a new ruling, one that could see you spend a night (or a few) in jail if you break it. If you’re in New Jersey and you know a particular person is driving, don’t text them, because if tha...

To avoid violating the Fourth Amendment Right of Americans, the NSA says that their surveillance program only collects the metadata of peoples’ communications — not the content. This means the numbers that are being d...

This past Tuesday Apple did something rather odd (or maybe it isn’t that odd for Apple): the company made an attempt to trademark the word ‘startup’. The plan here seems to be directed at Apple’s various product...

With great power comes great responsibility, but don’t tell that to the NSA agents who used the agency’s equipments to spy on their spouse or someone they have a crush on since high school. According to a report from the Wall Str...

Piracy on Android is a big problem for developers, it is one of the main reasons why there’s more free content in the Google Play Store compared to paid content. Additionally, it is also the reason why many developers choose to c...

20-year-old college student Caleb Clemmons has been in jail for six months after being charged for making “terroristic threats.” On his Tumblr blog. Here’s what he wrote:
“Hello. my name is irenigg and i p...

When the NSA first released the outline of their security programs, the agency claimed that it only touched 1.6 percent of internet traffic. Publications like The Atlantic disputed that number and now, the Wall Street Journal is ...

Last month, Google took action to dismiss a lawsuit which accused the company of breaking wiretap laws when it scans emails sent from other email providers to Gmail users (for the purposes of serving ads). Advocacy group Consumer...